Which Factors Influence our Diet? We all know the benefits from maintaining a balanced alimentation, nonetheless not all of us follow it. Is this totally a deliberate decision or is it part owing to unaware external factors that directly affect one's food choice? This essay analyzes which ones are major influences on our diet in order to help us improve it. Since our food choice has to be based on what is currently accessible in our area, availability has an unavoidable impact on our diet. Depending on where we live and the season of the year we are in, we would have access to certain products and not others. For instance, not having a varied diet is a problem people who live in isolated places have to deal with on account of a scarce selection of comestibles. Another factor to take into account is our childhood. As children, our meals are selected or elaborated mostly by our parents, which programs a behavioral pattern in us with regard to food: kids accustomed to certain comestibles in their households are likely to have their diet shaped accordingly to them in their adulthood, for better or worse. In conclusion, we could enrich our diet should we have more awareness of factors affecting our food selection. As is explained above, availability and childhood alimentation patterns have an undeniable impact on our diet. Given that availability is unchangeable by us, we must focus on changing our learned habits in order to have a healthier lifestyle.

The Olive & its Golden Oil "We are the civilization of the olive, Jean Giono wrote. We love the strong oil, the green oil, the oil whose smell inspires to read the Iliad and the Oddissey". Aproximately 4,000 years B.C., Phoenicians were already consuming it. Romans promoted the olive tree's culture and the commercialization of olive oil throughout all their empire. Nowadays, a Greek consumes 20 litres per year, compared to two for a French. Spain, Italy, and Greece produce the 70% of olive oil on Earth. Its flavor depends on the balance between bitterness and ardency (tingling in the throat). Like wine, the olive oil is offered in different grades of quality. The temperature when pressed, the origin, using only one or diverse types of olives are determinants in this quality. When an oil is named virgin extra it is mean that it comes from the first pressed (virgin), and this was below 40° Celicius. The olive oil would lose all its terapeutique properties if heated above 210° Celcius, apart from becomes cancer-related. This ingredient is one of the esentials in the Mediterranean diet.

“Lady Sings the Blues” — An Interesting Biography of Billie Holiday This book, published in 1956, is a must for any jazz music lover. Written by Billie Holiday herself and William Dufty, it covers the struggling life of Lady Day in the first person from her birth to the fifties, immersing yourself in the musical ambiance and lifestyle of jazz musicians of three decades. This hard story teaches us about coping, perseverance, and resilience. Since her childhood, Holiday faced discrimination, fear, poverty, substance abuse, and all kinds of difficulties that didn't prevent her from becoming the most creative and emotional jazz singer of all time. “Lady Sings the Blues” not only teaches us about jazz history, but also entertains us with a bitter sense of humor and a writing style that makes its reading pleasant. Since this book is autobiographical and published during Billie’s lifetime, some facts may have been altered or embellished. Some of them are different from the ones I've studied in other sources, but I don’t know which ones to believe. You can't expect the rawness of Sylvia Plath Diaries, to whom death came so soon so she couldn’t change anything, or the accuracy of an historian writer. However, the relevant storyline sustains. In conclusion, this biography is an interesting approach to Billie Holiday life that for sure will let you understand her songs and interpretation style way more better. I personally enjoy it so much and I strongly believe that it is worth a read if you like jazz as much as I do.

BLUES FORM The word  “blues” means a music style, a way to perform, a musical form, and a mood. In structure, the main characteristic is a repeated harmonic 12-bar pattern in 4/4 key signature. This 12-bar period is divided into three 4-bar phrases, the first in the tonic, the second in the subdominant and tonic, and the last in the dominant and tonic. The classic harmony  The harmony, although it seems to be a major-mode, is neither major nor minor. Blues sound comes from the simultaneous use of major and minor tonalities. An important characteristic of the blues is the use of notes that are unstable harmonically and functionally.

Bonjour à tout le monde! Je suis en train d'apprendre le Français. J'habite près de la frontière à Hendaye et j'aime aller à Bayonne pour se promener, acheter, manger, etc. Ma problem est que à Bayonne beaucoup de gens parlent espagnol et quand je veux essayer ma francais et ils écoutent que je suis espagnole, ils ne parle plus en français.

CLASH OF EMPIRES The Roman and Carthaginian expansion in the Mediterranean western basin went to a decisive spot, Sicily, that both had been disputing during the first Punic war (264-241 B.C.). Romans won this long conflict because of their maritime superiority, adding Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica as Roman provinces. Approximately 20 years later, Carthaginians took revenge when Hannibal crossed the Alps and had several victories. The second Punic war (218-201 B.C.) was a huge conflict, Titus Livius named as “the most memorable of all wars." Rome was on the verge of its destruction, but it established a foothold in Africa and won in Zama in 202 B.C., a decisive victory. The peace treaty required, among other things, Carthage to disarm and pay compensation.

Est-ce que tu peux m'aider avec le français? Je veux converser 30'/30' espagnol/français.

WEATHER REPORT (THE BAND) Weather Report was the first jazz band to use synthetic sound extensively. It was led by keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter. The band was successful in mix free jazz improvisational style with a rock sound. Their homonymous first album shows Zawinul's virtuoso use of the latest technological resources of its time. Zawinul was a great connoisseur of the complexity in European electronic music mixes. He was trained as an interpreter and composer in bands led by musicians such as Cannonball Adderley, Maynard Ferguson, and Miles Davis. After composing several relevant tunes while with them, he went into the hunting of his own personal sound through free improvisation.

WHAT IF THE WORLD BECOME VEGAN?* Experts argue that a global change to a vegetarian diet would be dangerous. Many regions in the world depend on imported proteins and this has an environmental cost. In two thousand and seventeen**, a study made in the Polytechnic Institute of Virginia shown what would happen if the whole population of U.S.A. became vegan: - Lands designated for cattle raising would become farmlands. - The farm waste would augment because there would not be enough animals to consume it. Its incineration would produce two million tons of CO2 per year to the atmosphere. - Almost all the plant food would be manufactured by the chemical industry, and it would add twenty three million tons more of CO2 emissions per year. - In respect to the current situation, in this vegan country the total CO2 emissions would be reduced by twenty eight percent. However, the population would be affected by calcium, B12 vitamin, and some fat acid deficiency. - The quantity of food would raise twenty three percent, because farming produced more per hectare than cattle raising. - Many animals would have to be killed. In England, a reduction of seventeen percent in the last ten years was supposed: thirty five percent of land released for other uses; save twenty three percent of water; and twenty eight percent less of CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, the national goal is to achieve a thirty percent of meat consumption, off of the current one, by 2030. (*) If some expressions are too much informal, correct them. Please. (**) I've decided to write down all the numbers in letters to practice my spelling.